English language + Etymology
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English language + Etymology
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English language + Etymology
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- The history of the English language, producer, Maya L. Drake ; senior producer, James Blandford
- The secret life of words, how English became English, Henry Hitchings
- Ladybugs, tiger lilies, and wallflowers, Robert Hendrickson
- That doesn't mean what you think it means, the 150 most commonly misused words and their tangled histories, Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras
- Keywords for today, a 21st century vocabulary : the keywords project, edited by Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek
- Strange vernaculars, how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English, Janet Sorensen
- Three sheets to the wind, the nautical origins of everyday expressions, Cynthia Barrett ; illustrations by Vail Barrett
- Black sheep and lame ducks, the origins of even more phrases we use every day, Albert Jack ; Illustrations by Ama Page
- Gobble!, the complete book of Thanksgiving words, by Lynda Graham-Barber ; pictures by Betsy Lewin
- Damp squid, the English language laid bare, Jeremy Butterfield
- 1000 words to expand your vocabulary, Joseph Piercy
- May we borrow your language?, how English has stolen, purloined, snaffled, pilfered, appropriated and looted words from all four corners of the world, Philip Gooden
- Dictionary of word origins, John Ayto
- The story of English in 100 words, David Crystal
- Founding grammars, how early America's war over words shaped today's language, Rosemarie Ostler
- 100 words to make you sound smart, from the editors of the American Heritage dictionaries
- Abracadabra to zombie, more than 300 wacky word origins, Don & Pam Wulffson ; illustrations by Jared Lee
- What's in a word?, Webb Garrison
- Lost for words, the hidden history of the Oxford English dictionary, Lynda Mugglestone
- The accidental dictionary, the remarkable twists and turns of English words, Paul Anthony Jones
- Common phrases and where they come from, Myron Korach in collaboration with John B. Mordock
- OK, the improbable story of America's greatest word, Allan Metcalf
- Around the world in 80 words, a journey through the English language, Paul Anthony Jones
- In a manner of speaking, phrases, expressions, and proverbs and how we use and misuse them, Colin McNairn
- Bagels bumf & buses, a day in the life of the English language, Simon Horobin
- Everything you know about English is wrong, Bill Brohaugh
- The hidden history of coined words, Ralph Keyes
- The American heritage dictionary of Indo-European roots, revised and edited by Calvert Watkins
- Seeing red or tickled pink, color terms in everyday language, Christine Ammer
- Anonyponymous, the forgotten people behind everyday words, John Bemelmans Marciano
- Horologicon, a day's jaunt through the lost words of the English language, Mark Forsyth
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